Writing to FAT32

endfx · 08-13-2005, 09:56 PM

I have another harddrive that has a FAT32 partition.
I want to write to this partition as a non root user but I can't seem to mount it so that it has write permissions for everybody. Only root seems to be able to write to it.

Here is the corresponding line from fstab:

/dev/hdb2 /media/shared vfat rw,user,auto 0 0

Does anybody know how to do this?

Thanks.

aysiu · 08-13-2005, 10:19 PM

Try just this

/dev/hdb2 /media/shared vfat umask=000 0 0

freakyg · 08-14-2005, 04:51 AM

Code:

/dev/hdb2 /media/shared vfat auto,owner,users,rw 0 0

SlackerLX · 08-14-2005, 05:27 AM

I have FAT32 partition as a Backup on HDD.
First of all create folder you want to use as a partition, let's call it "Storage". Then
code in fstab file should read the following, assuming that root ID is 1000

Code:

/dev/hdb2    /Storage   vfat   uid=1001,gid=root,rw   1  1

endfx · 08-14-2005, 09:33 AM

Thanks SlackerLX!

Works great.
I don't mean to be a pain in the ass but I don't understand why it is working.

Here is the line I added:
/dev/hdb2 /media/shared vfat uid=1000,gid=root,rw 1 1

The user I want to be able to have write access is 1000.
what does uid=1000 do?
and why are we setting the gid to root?

Thanks!

SlackerLX · 08-14-2005, 10:02 AM

User ID is the UNIX nimber of users on your BOX. root stands for 1000, first user you create -1001, AND SO ON. The code I gave you is correct one. Do not change UID, you'll mess up the permissions